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[Leon Brooks]

    http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,56481,00.html

    Microsoft took a public file server offline Tuesday after Internet
    users discovered that the system contained scores of internal
    Microsoft documents, including a huge customer database with
    millions of entries.

    [... gotta love the detail in the following par ...]

    Among the files accessible to any Internet user was a 1 GB
    database containing millions of names and mailing addresses. The
    data was kept in a compressed archive named dmail_11_04_02.zip.
    The file, which was protected with the password "dbms," was easily
    opened with freely available password-cracking software [-: from
    elcomsoft, no less :-].

Cheers; Leon